[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [The Mahābhārata and its versions](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata) › [The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) › 12.175.2 # The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 12.175.2 Mahābhārata 12.175.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [12.175.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.12.175.2) sasāgaraḥ sagaganaḥ saśailaḥ sabalāhakaḥ | sabhūmiḥ sāgnipavano loko'yaṃ kena nirmitaḥ || 2 || > "Yudhishthira said, 'Whence has this universe consisting of mobile and immobile creatures been created? Whom does it go to when destruction sets in? Tell me this, O grandsire! Indeed, by whom has this universe with its oceans, its firmament, its mountains, its clouds, its lands, its fire, and its wind, been created. How were all objects created? Whence this division into separate orders of existence? Whence are their purity and impurity, and the ordinances about virtue and vice? Of what kind is the life of living creatures? Where also do they go who die. Tell us everything about this and the other world.' > — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa - [Previous: 12.175.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.12.175.1) - [Next: 12.175.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.12.175.3) - [Up: 12.175](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.12.175) ## Translations (1) - [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.12.182.1) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Bhāratabhāvadīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha.12.182.2) — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (2) - [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.12.180.2) — Sanskrit - [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.12.182.2) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.12.175.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.12.175.2) · Pramāṇa